"Elephants being afraid of mice is the one time I was completely wrong about a myth on Mythbusters. They went all the way to Africa to test the myth on wild elephants and I was positive that this was the biggest waste of time... and then the elephant completely lost its s--- when they released the mouse! Amazing." — Redditor Badloss

"Ligers! They are rare, often not viable, and often sterile, but they do exist. And they aren't alone; there are reportedly quite a few big cat hybrids that have been produced. There have even been reported second generation hybrids produced from a first gen hybrid female and a male lion or tiger." — Redditor K0N8

Pictured: Zita, a liger, half-lioness, half-tiger, licks her one month old liliger cub in the Novosibirsk Zoo. The cub's father is a lion, Sam.

"MSG is perfectly fine to eat and has no adverse effects on health (in general it has no adverse effects. Yes, I get it some people have reactions to it but then again the same happens for many many foods)." — Redditor gimmeslack12

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Stubborn stubble

"That shaving doesn't cause your hair to grow back thicker and coarser. It's a myth, in a way, but not in the way you think. Hair grows from the root and naturally tapers to a point at the end. When you cut it, you expose the middle of that hair, leaving a flat stub.

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City under the sea

"Atlantis. Everyone's pretty sure it's the Minoan civilization - Akrotiri in particular. Working plumbing (including flush toilets), sewer systems, paved roads and drainage and multiple story houses (some up to four stories) in the bronze age. Incredibly advanced technologically for the time. Also a huge trade hub and had a hell of a lot of high level craft specialization.

It was also parked on Santorini (successive calderas match the classical "Atlantis" description of multiple rings of water and land) and went BOOM in one hell of a catastrophic show when the volcano decided to fart.

Myth and fantasy have distorted a lot of the facts, but even accounting for that distortion there's too many coincidences to simply ignore. It's not really definitively provable at this point, but everyone's pretty damned sure that the Minoan eruption was the "Anger of the gods" and the civilization it destroyed was what later became known as "Atlantis." — Redditor Taleya

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Conspiracy theories

"Most people think that the government doing things such as discrediting targets through psychological warfare; smearing individuals and groups using forged documents and by planting false reports in the media; harassment; wrongful imprisonment; and illegal violence, including assassination, is just a conspiracy theory, but this was all confirmed to happen under the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which officially ran from 1956 to 1971. It eventually got shutdown when citizens broke into a Pennsylvania FBI office and recovered proof of the program's existence, which they gave to the press and led to the Church Committee investigating the program." — Redditor JMEEKER86

"Wakefulness during anesthesia. Many people I know write it off as a dream or false memory, but patients absolutely can and do have periods of wakefulness if not straight up consciousness when under anesthesia during surgery. It is very rare and usually memory is suppressed, but it actually can and does happen." — Redditor Crede777